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    Ideas That Didn't Make It

    Word: Ideas That Didn’t Make It

    JohnBy JohnJuly 30, 2023No Comments3 Mins Read
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    Weekly recappppp. For ideas that made it into full encounters, we’ve got the following:

    • The F Word – You can’t spell Fomorian without FOMO
    • Mince Your Words – Come hungry, leave knowing “Fireball”
    • Wordle The Tortle -A guard that chooses puzzles over guarding needs some assistance.
    • Word to Your Mother – Stealthily place mementos so a dragonborn phones home
    • Bird Is The Word – An ornithologist gets more than she bargains for when studying flying creatures.
    • Can’t Get a Word in Edgewise – Something in the basement keeps eating a blacksmith’s wares

    These will likely show up in the form of our DnD Encounter Idea videos on Instagram and YouTube in the future, but here are the ideas that ended at a few bullet points:

    What’s the word, word up?

    • Wizarding student is taking an exam and struggling to remember how to cast reverse gravity
    • “Is it…word up?”
    • Help him cheat?  Otherwise, he gets expelled, and he has a family at home he’s providing for (moral dilemma)

    Word Generator

    • Town is lives in a place with no coal, no running water, and no wind…need an alternate source of power
    • They create a “generator” that powers the town so long as someone is talking to it, and telling it that it’s a good generator (runs on positive feedback)
    • But everyone’s voice is getting hoarse…they all talk in whispers…they need you to fetch some herbal tea remedy to help keep the town operational
    • Reclaim some of the herbs so they can plant it in the town and grow their own.

    The Spoken Word

    • Something with verbal only spells “power word kill” sort of thing
    • Underground Vicious Mockery battle (like rap battles)
    • 8 mile parody
    • Barbarian (or some non-bard) wants to hit it big 
    • Type: roleplay / performance
    dnd bard battle

    Picture Worth a Thousand Words

    • A realm-renown painter is selling his painting, but instead of cash he would like someone to write a review, which must be 1,000 words or more
    • He wants to go back to school for something, but he needs help with his entrance exam, which requires am essay submission about a famous painting
    • Write the 1000 words and he will give you his final painting that’s high-value
    • “I never learned to write, but THAT’S why i’m trying to go to college!”

    Then some remaining randoms:

    • Crossword Puzzle
      • Paladin’s holy symbol 
    • Spread the Word
      • Newspaper is back…Rodrick Inkwell needs paperboys to see if his paper should expand to neighboring villages and test how well it goes
    • Four letter words
      • A group of youths are in trouble for saying the swear words
    • My Word is Bond
      • Warding Bond…farmer casts a warding spell to protect his cattle
      • Cattle being eaten by flies, and the farmer is now sharing in that pain and needs HERBS TO MAKE A SALVE
    • A Man of Few Words
      • No one has heard the monk fighter speak in over 2 years buuuuuut
      • A Man of Feud Words…Hatfield/McCoy land dispute
    • Actions Speak Louder Than Words
      • Ax-tions…join a barbarian as he makes a statement by hacking apart something
      • Barbarian politician making his points but can only do so through violence
      • Running against a kenku that regurgitates everything he says
    • Buzzword
      • Spell to summon a swarm of bees
      • Giant wasps get summoned accidentally
      • Equivalent of bee vanishing situation…they are all hanging out in this one particular garden getting drugged up on the delicious nectar
      • Beekeeper struggling with his hives
    • Mum’s the word
      • A flower salesman tries to expand their product line

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